To the Edge and Beyond

The gaming industry is evolving rapidly, driven by technological advancements and strategic partnerships that enhance the gaming experience. On the latest episode of The Edge & Beyond podcast, Michelle Dawn Mooney is joined by Camilo Dennis, Gaming Partner & Ecosystem Manager at Intel, alongside Keith Watt, Global Product Sales Manager, and Craig Stapleton, Product Director, both from Advantech Gaming Solutions. Together, they explore how their collaboration is reshaping the gaming industry by addressing customer needs, improving time-to-market, and creating cutting-edge gaming solutions.

Keith Watt highlights, “Advantech's expertise, combined with Intel's technology, allows us to optimize products for gaming, offering reliability, scalability, and immersive graphics solutions tailored for slot machines.” Craig Stapleton further emphasizes the importance of their longstanding partnership, “Intel’s early access to technology roadmaps enables us to align our product development cycles, ensuring we deliver the latest and most effective gaming hardware.”

Camilo Dennis underscores Intel’s commitment to supporting the gaming segment, “We have a dedicated team focused on casino gaming, ensuring long-term product availability and stability for our partners. Our collaboration with Advantech is instrumental in pushing the boundaries of gaming technology.”

Listeners gain insights into the trends shaping gaming technology, including multi-screen immersive experiences and expanding opportunities in markets like Brazil. The guests invite everyone to visit their booth at G2E in Las Vegas to witness the latest advancements firsthand.

For an in-depth exploration into the future of gaming, listen to the podcast and connect with the guests:

• Camilo Dennis

• Keith Watt

• Craig Stapleton

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The gaming industry is evolving rapidly, driven by technological advancements and strategic partnerships that enhance the gaming experience. On the latest episode of The Edge & Beyond podcast, Michelle Dawn Mooney is joined by Camilo Dennis, Gaming Partner & Ecosystem Manager at Intel, alongside Keith Watt, Global Product Sales Manager, and Craig Stapleton, Product Director, both from Advantech Gaming Solutions. Together, they explore how their collaboration is reshaping the gaming industry by addressing customer needs, improving time-to-market, and creating cutting-edge gaming solutions.

Keith Watt highlights, “Advantech's expertise, combined with Intel's technology, allows us to optimize products for gaming, offering reliability, scalability, and immersive graphics solutions tailored for slot machines.” Craig Stapleton further emphasizes the importance of their longstanding partnership, “Intel’s early access to technology roadmaps enables us to align our product development cycles, ensuring we deliver the latest and most effective gaming hardware.”

Camilo Dennis underscores Intel’s commitment to supporting the gaming segment, “We have a dedicated team focused on casino gaming, ensuring long-term product availability and stability for our partners. Our collaboration with Advantech is instrumental in pushing the boundaries of gaming technology.”

Listeners gain insights into the trends shaping gaming technology, including multi-screen immersive experiences and expanding opportunities in markets like Brazil. The guests invite everyone to visit their booth at G2E in Las Vegas to witness the latest advancements firsthand.

For an in-depth exploration into the future of gaming, listen to the podcast and connect with the guests:

• Camilo Dennis

• Keith Watt

• Craig Stapleton

Subscribe to the "To the Edge & Beyond" podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to engage with more thought leaders from the Intel and Edge Network group.

The education sector stands at the brink of a transformative era as technological innovation propels learning into new realms of experience. Marcos Silva, Platform Architect Supporting Education and Corporate Segments at Intel, and Luis Marin, Education Ecosystem and Alliances Director at Intel, join forces with moderator Michelle Dawn Mooney on the "To the Edge & Beyond" podcast to delve into Intel's revolutionary Ops and Ops 2.0.

"We're revolutionizing the way education is delivered and experienced through AI and advanced technologies," states Silva, unveiling Intel’s latest advancements in the educational sector. The introduction of Ops 2.0 marks a significant milestone, promising to meet the evolving demands of modern education. Marin adds, "Ops 2.0 exemplifies our commitment to innovation, enhancing flexibility, performance, and sustainability for educational institutions."

Luis Marin elaborates on the benefits of Ops 2.0, "It’s designed as a universal docking station for digital signs, enhancing interactive flat panel displays commonly found in classrooms. With Ops 2.0, we integrate the latest Intel technologies to provide superior performance and manageability, making it an invaluable asset for educators and students alike."

Marcos Silva emphasizes the impact of AI in education, "AI is transforming how teachers interact with students and how educational content is delivered. Ops 2.0 supports this by collecting and analyzing classroom data, enabling personalized learning experiences and improving overall educational outcomes."

As the discussion wraps up, Marin and Silva invite the audience to explore these innovations further, "We encourage educators and technology partners to experience the capabilities of Ops 2.0 firsthand. Visit Intel’s website for detailed guidance and resources." Silva also urges listeners to connect with Intel on LinkedIn for ongoing insights into their educational initiatives.

For an in-depth look into the future of educational technology, follow the journey of Marcos Silva and Luis Marin. Don’t miss out on their pioneering advancements—connect with Marcos Silva and Luis Marin on LinkedIn for the latest updates. Discover more about the solution offering here.

Marcos Silva

Luis Marin

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The education sector stands at the brink of a transformative era as technological innovation propels learning into new realms of experience. Marcos Silva, Platform Architect Supporting Education and Corporate Segments at Intel, and Luis Marin, Education Ecosystem and Alliances Director at Intel, join forces with moderator Michelle Dawn Mooney on the "To the Edge & Beyond" podcast to delve into Intel's revolutionary Ops and Ops 2.0.

"We're revolutionizing the way education is delivered and experienced through AI and advanced technologies," states Silva, unveiling Intel’s latest advancements in the educational sector. The introduction of Ops 2.0 marks a significant milestone, promising to meet the evolving demands of modern education. Marin adds, "Ops 2.0 exemplifies our commitment to innovation, enhancing flexibility, performance, and sustainability for educational institutions."

Luis Marin elaborates on the benefits of Ops 2.0, "It’s designed as a universal docking station for digital signs, enhancing interactive flat panel displays commonly found in classrooms. With Ops 2.0, we integrate the latest Intel technologies to provide superior performance and manageability, making it an invaluable asset for educators and students alike."

Marcos Silva emphasizes the impact of AI in education, "AI is transforming how teachers interact with students and how educational content is delivered. Ops 2.0 supports this by collecting and analyzing classroom data, enabling personalized learning experiences and improving overall educational outcomes."

As the discussion wraps up, Marin and Silva invite the audience to explore these innovations further, "We encourage educators and technology partners to experience the capabilities of Ops 2.0 firsthand. Visit Intel’s website for detailed guidance and resources." Silva also urges listeners to connect with Intel on LinkedIn for ongoing insights into their educational initiatives.

For an in-depth look into the future of educational technology, follow the journey of Marcos Silva and Luis Marin. Don’t miss out on their pioneering advancements—connect with Marcos Silva and Luis Marin on LinkedIn for the latest updates. Discover more about the solution offering here.

Marcos Silva

Luis Marin

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The gaming industry stands at the brink of a transformative era, as technological innovation propels casino gaming into new realms of experience. Quixant's Duncan Faithfull, EVP, Business Leader, and CCO; Abhinay Bhagavatula, EVP, CTO, and Global Manufacturing Leader; and Intel's Camilo Dennis, Gaming Partner & Ecosystem Manager, join forces with moderator Michelle Dawn Mooney to dissect the intricacies of their alliance on the "To the Edge & Beyond" podcast.

"We're enabling game designers to unleash their creativity without being restricted by technology," states Faithfull, as he reveals Quixant's latest collaboration with Intel. The launch of the IQ 2 platform at the ICE Gaming show signifies a milestone in this collaborative journey- completing Quixant’s range of Intel based platforms - promising to meet the nuanced demands of the gaming market. Bhagavatula adds, "Our IQ 2 offering is a testament to our commitment to continuous innovation, enhancing storage, performance, and scalability for our customers."

Camilo Dennis emphasizes the strength of the collaboration, "It's been great to find a partner like Quixant to strengthen that relationship." He reflects on Intel's dedication to understanding and fulfilling customer needs within the gaming sector. Their discussion sheds light on the evolving landscape of gaming, where omnichannel experiences blur the lines between the virtual and the tangible, creating a seamless player experience across multiple platforms.

As the conversation concludes, Faithfull and Bhagavatula extend an invitation to the audience to explore their offerings further, "We'll be there in person at ICE, looking forward to engaging in great conversations," they express. Dennis also encourages listeners to connect with Intel on LinkedIn for insights into their gaming endeavors.

For an immersive dive into the new era of gaming technology, follow the journey of Quixant and Intel. Don't miss out on their innovative strides—connect with Duncan Faithfull, Abhinay Bhagavatula, and Camilo Dennis on LinkedIn for the latest updates. Find out more on the solution offering here.

• Duncan Faithfull - LinkedIn Profile
• Abhinay Bhagavatula - LinkedIn Profile
• Camilo Dennis - LinkedIn Profile

Subscribe to the "To the Edge & Beyond" podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts to engage with more thought leaders from the Intel and Edge Network group.

The gaming industry stands at the brink of a transformative era, as technological innovation propels casino gaming into new realms of experience. Quixant's Duncan Faithfull, EVP, Business Leader, and CCO; Abhinay Bhagavatula, EVP, CTO, and Global Manufacturing Leader; and Intel's Camilo Dennis, Gaming Partner & Ecosystem Manager, join forces with moderator Michelle Dawn Mooney to dissect the intricacies of their alliance on the "To the Edge & Beyond" podcast.

"We're enabling game designers to unleash their creativity without being restricted by technology," states Faithfull, as he reveals Quixant's latest collaboration with Intel. The launch of the IQ 2 platform at the ICE Gaming show signifies a milestone in this collaborative journey- completing Quixant’s range of Intel based platforms - promising to meet the nuanced demands of the gaming market. Bhagavatula adds, "Our IQ 2 offering is a testament to our commitment to continuous innovation, enhancing storage, performance, and scalability for our customers."

Camilo Dennis emphasizes the strength of the collaboration, "It's been great to find a partner like Quixant to strengthen that relationship." He reflects on Intel's dedication to understanding and fulfilling customer needs within the gaming sector. Their discussion sheds light on the evolving landscape of gaming, where omnichannel experiences blur the lines between the virtual and the tangible, creating a seamless player experience across multiple platforms.

As the conversation concludes, Faithfull and Bhagavatula extend an invitation to the audience to explore their offerings further, "We'll be there in person at ICE, looking forward to engaging in great conversations," they express. Dennis also encourages listeners to connect with Intel on LinkedIn for insights into their gaming endeavors.

For an immersive dive into the new era of gaming technology, follow the journey of Quixant and Intel. Don't miss out on their innovative strides—connect with Duncan Faithfull, Abhinay Bhagavatula, and Camilo Dennis on LinkedIn for the latest updates. Find out more on the solution offering here.

• Duncan Faithfull - LinkedIn Profile
• Abhinay Bhagavatula - LinkedIn Profile
• Camilo Dennis - LinkedIn Profile

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Making things simple and easy is the mantra, or should be the mantra, of any connected device solution aimed at improving human workflows. Utilizing edge intelligence is one way to improve operational efficiencies. Three companies working together to provide these scale solutions are VolteoEdge, ServiceNow, and Intel. How they’re bringing these edge technologies to market and working to support each other to offer unified solutions is what To the Edge and Beyond’s host Michelle Dawn Mooney speaks about with her three guests, VolteoEdge CEO Ravi Nannapaneni, Intel Vice President of Network and Edge Solutions Alec Gefrides,  and ServiceNow Vice President and Global Head of Vision & Innovation Tasker Generes.

Generes says the cornerstone of any edge solution is making it easy and simple for the customer. “That’s what ServiceNow is all about. We’re trying to understand what’s happening in that environment, from the edge to the service and how it’s performing. You’ve got to have the right information to make the right decisions. The whole concept of edge-to-service is providing people with that technology and the workflow to see what is happening and provide the best performance for the top and bottom-line improvement.”

Nannapaneni says for Volteo Edge’s part, they enable edge intelligence, provision it, and manage it for the ultimate vision of putting data to work to power workflows and services seamlessly across the value chain resulting in three value propositions. “One is to drive revenue improvement for the customer, cost reduction, and risk reduction.”

Provisioning technology is essential for solving the challenges of connected device operations, where getting devices into the proper environment is critical. Gefrides says Intel works with open standards technology called FDO (Fido Device Onboarding.) “What it enables is, when you plug in that device, it basically calls home or calls to a dedicated server that says, hi, I’m available. That device now has a token, that server’s received a token that makes a handshake that says, okay, yes, you belong here. It helps the device join the appropriate company and network it belongs to.”

Learn more about edge connectivity solutions by connecting with Ravi Nannapaneni, Alec Gefrides, and Tasker Generes on LinkedIn or visit:

Intel

VolteoEdge

ServiceNow

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For the tech industry, finding solutions is a daily priority. So, the discovery of new and improved solutions is always a constant goal for the advancement of this.

In a new episode of “To the Edge and Beyond,” host Michelle Dawn Mooney interviewed Intel Product Engineer Sean Williams, and IOTech CTO Jim White, to discuss how the two companies collaborate on IoT and edge computing software solutions with industry end customers.

In the last several years much has changed in tech and a lot of that change has been bolstered by companies starting to take more initiative.

According to White, less focus on doing trials, and rather applying them is driving better outcomes. “We’re really seeing IOT and Edge emerge as technologies and companies are no longer playing and experimenting with, they're now putting solutions in the field. So, playtime’s over — they're having to put things out there that are actually scalable, working, getting real results with their money,” said White.

Finding better solutions with a platform that can offer a multitude of answers is the basis of EdgeX. Williams said it’s similar to an all-in-one but more so a, “... Common platform, a common solution that can solve, if not all, or some of their use cases or a majority of them,” said Williams.

He added that companies tend to have separate solutions for specific problems, but these answers are not exactly foolproof either. “Particularly, we can find some companies will have five different solutions, some five different use cases, but neither one of those solutions can talk to each other or share data and that's kind of where EdgeX comes in at. It's a …  platform. It allows you to talk to heterogeneous devices that can then solve different types of use cases.”

Connect with Sean Williams and Jim White on LinkedIn. Visit the EdgeX website to learn more about open-source IoT device connectivity and edge computing.

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With the increase requirement to deliver new innovative AI cases in various industries, software engineers are discovering new ways to deal with the vast amounts of application and device data. The Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) is a tool that allows for better analysis and processing of annotation data.

Intel IOT/ML Senior Software Engineer Neethu Elizabeth Simon, talked to host Michelle Dawn Mooney on an episode of “To the Edge and Beyond,” on computer vision, how it functions, and how data can be annotated more efficiently for object detection, image classification, and image segmentation.

Simon outlined the four main steps when it comes to Computer problems: data collection, annotation, training, and inference. She added that the order of operations normally includes data collection and clean-up, then annotation, which involves data labeling, followed by training to determine the models, and lastly, the inferencing stage when the model is deployed.

“This cyclic process can become stale, and if data becomes stale our models will fail and obviously our performance and accuracy are going to be affected,” says Simon.

Of the four steps, Simon mentioned that the annotation stage is the simplest, but added that it demanded the most effort and time citing the manual nature of data annotation and how much time it takes to complete.

The growing popularity of the Computer Vision Annotation Tool is leading the charge. However, there is still room for improvement, said Simon. “There are several tools available in the market. I wouldn't say any of them have automated — it is still a research topic, people are trying to figure out how to automate this entire process, so we can save some time by building solutions, and one of the tools is the Computer Vision Annotation Tool ... and it's very popular,” says Simon.

Simon indicated that the Computer Vision Annotation Tool is a very noteworthy aid and that its popularity is recognized by its GitHub rank and its helpfulness to various figures in the IT field.

Learn more about the concept of computer vision and more at Intel’s computer vision solutions. Connect with Neethu Elizabeth Simon on LinkedIn, or via email at [email protected].

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The retail industry always sees a multitude of changes thanks to customer demands and needs, as well as technological advances that have improved how people shop. During the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a huge shift to online shopping. But with lockdowns over in most places, there’s been another shift. Retailers routinely have to make necessary changes to keep up with the habits of today’s shoppers and the changes that come with how they shop.

What can retailers implement to ensure that they stay on top of the customer trends?

On a new episode of “To the Edge and Beyond,” host Gabrielle Bejarano talked with Intel Retail Industry Specialist Naren Kumar and UST Head of Vision AI Global Product Management and 5G IOT Architect Paul Reddy about customer behaviors that are impacting retailers and the challenges that arise in staying on top of that.

Bejarano, Kumar, and Reddy further discussed …

• Technology adoption that can help retailers improve the shopping experience for shoppers
• Behavioral attributes customers tend to have when shopping with a retailer
• Shopping form factors such as self-checkout that have staying power with customers

 “Customers are choosing multichannel buying experiences. So, now retailers have to really gear up and say ‘How do we attract customers to come to brick-and-mortar stores?’ …that's one of the challenges that retailers are experiencing, and customer behavior is changing so much that retailers have to adapt to new technologies so that they can catch up and attract and bring more customers,” said Reddy.

Kumar shared, “I think retailers are certainly understanding what customers value, and hence they're really investing in ideas where those customer expectations are met … the overall goal, from a retailer’s standpoint – keep the shelves stocked up, keep the lines shorter, and then close the sales faster and then repeat the cycle.

Retail technology can improve the lives of employees and customers of retail establishments. Intel and UST continue to leverage each other’s respective strengths to improve computer vision and artificial intelligence technologies for retailers and hospitality providers.  By testing and deploying the latest advances, retailers can deliver improved customer experiences while improving the productivity of their employees

Naren Kumar is the Retail Industry Specialist at Intel, where he’s worked for over a decade, he can be reached through LinkedIn. UST Head of Vision AI Global Product Management and 5G IOT Architect Paul Reddy can also be reached through LinkedIn.

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